Free Pictures, Media, Public Domain the lot:)

Here is a list i gathered of loads of free stuff which may help peeps here. I don't think its been shared or mentioned,I hate paying top dollar for pics etc so hence I thought I would share this. Useful for err not only design but maybe Pin interest, profiles etc. Anyway here it is

Wikimedia Commons hosts only freely licensed images, sound files, and other media. With over 18 million uploaded files, (as of August 2013), it is the largest free "images-only" repository. It contains many public domain images. Commons is the primary repository of media for all Wikimedia projects. Media on Commons can be used readily on all Wikimedia projects, just as if the media were uploaded to the projects directly. Media tagged with the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark can be found here: commons:Category:CC-PD-Mark

PublicPhoto.Org - Over 26,000 unique photos with a resolution of up to 4752 x 3168 px free for private and commercial use.

PD Photo - Large collection of mostly public domain photos. Read the license for each picture before use; also, model releases may not have been obtained for all photos.

Photos Public Domain Thousands of high quality public domain photographs free for any use, with no restrictions. Collections included are: textures, animals, nature, and a variety of stock images for any use, including commercial.

PDPics.com Public domain photo collection with about 6500 high resolution pictures up to 6000x4000. All images licensed under CC0 license.

Public Domain Pictures A large collection of high quality pictures for free. Possibility to contact the authors for original files. (For some photo you have to be "premium membership" a.k.a. you have to pay !).

FreeStockPhotos.biz A large collection of Public Domain, GNU, Creative Commons & custom licensed stock photos and clip art. (Beware, CC images is not Public Domain).

Good Free Photos - All public domain pictures of mainly landscape but wildlife and plants as well

My Public Domain Pictures - A growing collection of amateur pictures released into public domain. You can use their pictures for any purpose and they do not require anything in return. Their collection includes travel pictures, pictures of animals and plants, background designs and many more being added everyday. They also include a collection of high resolution public domain pictures segregated according to topics including etchings of public domain pictures. The site also includes macro photography.

Google repository of LIFE images hosts a large repository of LIFE images; Time Warner, Inc. claims blanket copyright to everything but this is simply untrue. (see here and also see here) Anything more than 120 years old (i.e., before 1892) is generally safe. (exception is if the original author died less than 75 years ago—45 years after these PD pictures have been taken—the author lived in a state with Common law copyright, and the name of the author is known—and in that case Time itself is most likely in copyright violation.) You must remove the watermark if you use the larger image.

TotallyFreeImages.com - Totally free public-domain images - This is the largest archive on the Internet with more than 494,000 high-resolution, professional-grade, royalty-free images, 100% public-domain and acceptable for use with Wikipedia. (collection from government sources)